plusBASIC Release History

• v0.26 (2025-04-30)
  • Fixed Illegal quantity error in DEF SPRITE (rows,columns),spritle
  • Added functions CURSOROFFSET, CURSORX, CURSORY
  • Moved bit flag SCRCOLOR from BASYSCTL to SCREENCTL
  • Added unit tests to sg.bas (screen graphics)
• v0.25 (2025-04-23)
  • Forked s3basic.asm to plusBASIC specific sbasic.asm and inlined into aqplusbas.asm
  • Renamed macro SYNCHK to SYNCHKC, added SYNCHKT
  • Refactored rst SYNCHKC calls to SYNCHKC or SYNCHKT
• v0.24l (2025-04-15)
  • Implemented AqExec load to and run from paged RAM
  • Added paged RAM destination to CALL
  • Fixed PUT SCREEN generating Illegal quantity error
  • Replaced UDF hook in ATN with direct jump
  • Replaced UDF hooks in OUTDO and TTYCHR/TTYCH with direct jump. Moved hook code from AuxROM to SysROM
  • Ensured that Extended ROM is paged in for direct jumps that replaced UDF hooks
• v0.24k (2025-04-07)
  • Updated AQPLUS Resource file chunk header formet and AqExec example asm/hello.asm
  • Implemented RUNing AqExec programs
  • Refactored LINE INPUT code
  • Fixed PLAY SAMPLE and ^G warm boot infinite loop
  • print_string_immd now preserves HL
  • Updated makeinc.py and regenerated assembly include files
• v0.24j (2025-03-28)
  • SAVE routines no longer close all files
  • Fixed OPEN, FILEATTR(), READ KEYS
  • Added OPEN ... APPEND, CLOSE #channel, READ #channel,var$,length, WRITE #channel,^var$
  • Moved play_sample to auxiliary ROM, add play_sample to kernel jump table
  • Temporarily disable turbo mode during Ctrl-G beep and PLAY SAMPLE
  • Replaced assembly routine GET_STRING with FRMSTR, added routine PARSTR
  • Replaced calls to:
    • FRMEVL+CHKSTR with FRMSTR
    • FRMPRN+GETYPE with FRMPRT
    • PARCHK+CHKSTR with PARSTR
  • Renamed fileaux.asm to filemisc.asm
• v0.24i (2025-03-27)
  • Replaced UDF hooks 0, 35 through 45 with direct jumps
  • Deleted deprecated routine aux_rom_call
• v0.24h (2025-03-26)
  • Moved FN_KEY and FN_MOUSE core code into auxiliary ROM
  • Renamed kernel routine key_read_ascii to key_read and removed kernel routine stub key_read_scan_code
  • Moved kernel routines key_clear_fifo, key_read, and key_set_keymode from keyread.asm to aqplusbas.asm
  • Moved kernel routine key_pressed from keyread.asm to auxrom/misc.asm and deleted file keyread.asm
  • Modified FN_KEY to take string of keycodes instead of ASCII codes and return position in string of key pressed
  • Added REPEAT and UNTIL tokens, PAUSE UNTIL statement, kernel routine bool_setbit_long
• v0.24g (2025-03-16)
  • Renamed and added JOYx() functions. Allowed controller id as argument to JOYxx() functions
• v0.24f (2025-03-10)
  • Added OFFSET()
  • Moved move_cursor into AuxROM, split screen offset calculation code into cursor_offset.
  • Moved DATE+TIME, MOUSEx, JOIN, and SPLIT core code into AuxROM.
• v0.24e (2025-03-08)
  • Key read logic rewritten to mimic original INKEY$ logic
  • Added CLEAR KEYS statement, % binary numeric literals
  • UPRKEY, UPRKEY$, LWRKEY, and LWRKEY$ no longer wait for a keypress
  • Added JOYB(), JOYD(), JOYK(), JOYP(), and JOYxx() functions
• v0.24d (2025-02-27)
  • Added INC var and DEC var
  • Fixed ERASE *array
  • Added String length error
  • Added RESET SPRITE with Empty string and String length errors
  • Fixed Syntax arror on negative numbers after DIM var()=
  • Moved _get_rgb core code and sprite_set_pos from Extended ROM to Auxiliary ROM
• v0.24c (2025-02-17)
  • Added DEF SPRITE def$=(cols,rows),spritle
  • Fixed SET FNKEY rebooting when string is too long
• v0.24b (2025-02-16)
  • Fixed SET TILE TO CHR statement
  • Added SET TILE *array$
  • Added DEF SPRITE def$=^var$, unimplemented DEF SPRITE def$=(w,h),s
  • SET SPRITE generates Empty string error if spritedef = ""
  • Removed undocumented OPEN() function
  • Moved GETYPE into, added FRMTYP, FRMPRS, FRMPRT, PARTYP, FRMSTR to S3BASIC
  • Removed routines parchk_getype, frmeval_getype, skip_frmprn_getype, skip_frmprn_getyp, frmprn_getype
  • parse_colors generates Missing Operand error instead of Syntax error
  • Added routines get_strbuf_addr_no_bc, fretms_addr_len
• v0.24a (2025-02-09) -Fixed display of plusBASIC version on boot screen
• v0.24 (2025-02-09)
  • Color cycle screen skipped if /system/plusbasic/_skipsplash exists
  • DEF ATTRLIST now allows string operands.
  • Changed all internal graphic kernel calls to use gfx_call instead of aux_call
  • Moved ST_SPLIT core code into basicaux.asm
  • Added tests to aqpunit/sg.bas and linked into test chain
  • Changed aqpunit/sx.bas to match plusBASIC last user page change
• v0.23u (2025-02-02)
  • Fixed PAD$() overwriting string variables
  • Added PRINT @(), SET CURSOR ON/OFF, GETCURSOR
  • Added SET BORDER CHR/COLOR, RESET BORDER
  • Added GETBORDERCHR, GETBORDERCHR$, GETBORDERCOLOR, GETBORDERCOLOR$
• v0.23t (2025-02-01)
  • Added DUMP VARS
• v0.23s (2025-01-26)
  • Implemented UPR(), UPR$(), LWR(), LWR$(), UPRKEY, UPRKEY$, LWRKEY, LWRKEY$
  • Implemented BIT(string,bit#)
  • Added LONG(), LONG$(), FLOAT(), FLOAT$()
  • INKEY. INKEY$, GETKEY, GETKEY$ now respect SET BREAK OFF
  • Fixed errors in TRIMDIR$ and TRIMEXT$
  • Fixed bug in RGB() and RGB$() with string argument
• v0.23r (2024-12-14)
  • Added PAD$(number,...) where number is converted to string before padding
  • DEF RGBLIST, RGB(), and RGB$() now accept 3 byte binary string of 8-bit R,G,B values
  • Added LEN(*array) which returns length in bytes of data portion of array.
  • Added COPY *array TO ..., COPY ... TO *array, and COPY *array TO *array
  • ROM load routine executes esp:boot.bin instead of /boot/bin
• v0.23q (2024-11-29)
  • Removed SGNINT(), added INT(string$) and INT(string$,offset)
  • RGB(), RGB$(), and DEF RGBLIST now accept 8-bit RGB binary string operands
• v0.23p (2024-11-28)
  • SET BREAK OFF causes Ctrl-C to not BREAK out of INPUT
  • Syntax OUT! port,byte allows writing to protected I/O ports
  • boot.bin modified to identify and execute alternate BASIC ROMs
  • Implemented SGNINT() function
• v0.23o (2024-10-27)
  • SET BREAK OFF disables key checks between BASIC statements
  • Fixed Ctrl-D, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-U turbo mode selection
  • plusBASIC now executes ROM images via boot.bin
  • Set S3 BASIC internal revision date to same as S1/S2
  • Removed sys_ver_s3basic and S3BASIC option from VER() and VER()
• v0.23n (2024-10-25)
  • Added statement SET TRACK SPEED herz and function TRACKSPEED
  • Added Ctrl-U sets Unlimited Turbo while program is running
  • Copied JOY() assembly code to AuxROM routine read_gamepad
  • Embedded SYSROM filename at $2FF0
• v0.23m (2024-10-21)
  • Implemented PAUSE jiffies
  • Added DEF USRINT, SET USRINT ON/OFF
• v0.23l (2024-10-20)
  • Added statement SET SPEED and function GETSPEED
• v0.23k (2024-10-19)
  • Breaking change
    • Keyword PT3 has been changed to TRACK
  • READ *var$ now parses quoted strings correctly.
  • DIM var$(...)= requires quoted strings unless string is empty
• v0.23j (2024-10-18)
  • Breaking changes
    • FILL BITMAP BYTE is now FILL BITMAP BYTES
    • FILL BYTE is now FILL BYTES
    • FILL WORD is now FILL WORDS
  • Added BYTE(), WORD(), and WORD$() functions
  • S3 BASIC CONINT routine now allows signed numbers (-256 through 255)
  • Fixed DEC() Overflow error when argument is not a literal string
  • Fixed ASC$() corrupting argument contents
  • var$[...] now returns a temporary so that FRETOP won't get clobbered
• v0.23i (2024-10-09)
  • Added ATTR(), ATTR$()
  • Implemented GETCOLOR
• v0.23h (2024-09-23)
  • Added ENDKEY, FILESTATUS$(), FILEDATETIME$(), FILEATTR(), and FILELEN()
  • Added optional position argument to ASC()
  • Modified enhanced INPUT to exit on Ctrl-X, Tab, Back-Tab, Cursor-Up, and Cursor-Down
• v0.23g (2024-09-18)
  • Fixed get_byte 64 which was causing DEF SPRITE to error on spritle 63
  • Added PAD token to bas2baq.py and baq2bas.py
  • Added AqExec file support to RUN file
• v0.23f (2024-09-13)
  • Added TILEOFFSET()
  • Changed get_color_args calls to get_screen_colors and remove get_color_args routine
  • Changed CLEAR COLOR to CLS COLOR {_fg_,_bg_}
  • CHR and ATTR options to COPY SCREEN TO... and COPY ... TO SCREEN
  • Wrote unit test cs.baq to test COPY SCREEN statements
  • Modified ss.baq to use COPY SCREEN and enabled OUT port restrictions
• v0.23e (2024-09-07)
  • Fixed file_load_paged executing random code when loading files over 65535 bytes
  • Added test to sl.baq for loading large files to paged RAM
• v0.23d (2024-09-06)
  • Fixed PEEKSCREEN() and PEEKCOLOR() for both 40 and 80 column mode
  • Refactored screen_read_byte, screen_write_byte, color_read_byte, and color_write_byte
  • Rewrote PEEKSCREEN$() PEEKCOLOR$(), color_read_string, and color_write_string
  • Added unit tests front end au.baq and unit test program ps.baq
• v0.23c (2024-09-01)
  • Enabled SET BREAK ON/OFF
  • Fixed PEEK$ Syntax error
  • Added ASC option to SAVE/LOAD PALETTE.
  • Added FAST option to COPY SCREEN TO ... and COPY ... TO SCEEN
  • Added CLEAR COLOR
  • Fixed page_read_paged and page_write_paged to return next paged address
  • Fixed FILL TILEMAP out of bounds error checking
  • Added continuous chain option to unit tests
• v0.23b (2024-08-28)
  • Added extended memory addressing (!long) to
    • COPY, COMPARE()
    • FILL BYTE, FILL WORD,
    • LOAD, SAVE
    • POKE, PEEK(), PEEK$(), DOKE, DEEK
    • PLAY SAMPLE
  • Moved gfx/screen.asm to auxrom/screen.asm
  • Implemented COPY @page,address TO SCREEN
  • Fixed ARGS always returning 0,ARGS$() crashing system.
  • Fixed DIR returning wrong file size
• v0.23a (2024-08-26)
  • Fixed LOAD BITMAP incorrectly loading 9192 byte legacy bitmaps.
  • Fixed unit test for legacy bitmaps
• v0.23 (2024-08-25)
  • Fixed ptplay.bin not being loaded
  • Fixed RUN rom-files crashing system
  • Fixed LOAD FNKEY
  • Load pt3play.bin from SD card, then esp: if not found
• v0.22y (2024-08-21)
  • Breaking changes
    • FILL {@page},address,oount,byte is now FILL BYTE {@page}, address, oount, byte
    • FILL {@page},address,oount,WORD integer is now FILL WORD {@page}, address, count, integer
    • LOAD COLOR is now LOAD SCREEN ATTR
    • LOAD DIR ... \*array now loads filenames only
    • LOAD DIR ... *array$,BIN replaces old LOAD DIR ... \*array
    • SAVE filespec$,TOK to SAVE filespec$,BIN.
  • New statements and functions
    • APPEND filespec$,^var$
    • BIT(long,bit#)
    • COPY SCREEN TO @page,address
    • FILL COLORMAP
    • JOY$()
    • PT3FAST
    • SET FILE ERROR ON/OFF
    • SET PT3 FAST ON/OFF
  • Updated statements and functions
    • ATN implemented.
    • CLEAR CURSOR
    • FRE(_option_)
      • -1 - Returns the number of bytes in memory not being used by BASlC as unsigned int.
      • 0 - Returns the number of bytes in memory not being used by BASlC as signed int.
      • 1 - Returns the total size of string space (as set by the first argument of CLEAR).
      • 2 - Returns the top of BAexSIC memory (as set by the second argument of CLEAR).
      • "" - Garbage collect and return free string space
    • INPUT (_col_,_row_),_minlen_,_maxlen_,INT _var_
    • LOAD CHRSET
      • 768 byte file loads to characters 32 to 127 (standard ASCII printable)
      • 1024 byte file loads to characters 128 to 255 (high ASCII)
      • 2048 byte file loads entire character set
    • LOAD DIR ... *array$,ASC loads formatted directory
  • Operational changes
    • CLEAR, NEW, and RUN close all files
    • LOAD filespec,@page,address now load more than 64k
    • LOAD BITMAP generates Error 49 if file size does not exactly match one of the supported formats.
    • LOAD basic program sets FILE ERROR ON
    • LOAD binary closes file
    • Renamed Disk I/O error to I/O error
  • Statements and functions now respecting SET FILE ERROR OFF
    • LOAD FNKEYS
    • SAVE/LOAD PALETTE
    • LOAD string
    • LOAD array
    • LOAD DIR
    • DEL
    • MKDIR
    • CD and CD$
  • Bug fixes
    • Syntax error on LOAD filespec$,@page :
    • Syntax error in SET SPRITE ... PALETTE
  • Added unit test front end au.bas, chained unit test programs
  • Updated unit test framework an unit tests
  • Restricted kernel page writes to not write past USER_END.
  • System IRQ handler now preserves all registers
• v0.22x (2024-05-25)
  • Added LOAD TILESET and SAVE TILESET
  • Added SET CHRDEF, GETCHRDEF$(), and SAVE CHRSET
  • Fixed characters 128 - 255 of default character set being overridden
  • INPUT and READ now parse hexademical numbers
  • Added DIM var()=list, READ *var
• v0.22w (2024-05-20)
  • Added WAIT, SET BREAK ON/OFF
  • Implemented RGB(), DEF USR
  • Added syntax OUT port,byte|string$;port,byte|string$...
  • Syntax {@page,}address,byte;... to POKE, POKE COLOR, POKE SCREEN, and DOKE
• • ^ operator string substition gives Missing or Too many operands errors. v0.22v (2024-05-19)
  • Added JOIN statement
  • Added CLEAR *array
  • All statements that write to multiple elements of string array, first zero out the array contents, then do a garbage collecion.
  • Fixed DIM causes Syntax error after VARPTR()
• v0.22u
  • Added string slicing in the form var$[pos] and var$[start TO end]
  • Added Bad range error
  • Fixed null string causing String too long error when used as an argument in % string substitution
• v0.22t (2024-05-15)
  • Added PAD$ function
• v0.22s (2024-05-13)
  • Added LOAD BITMAP and SAVE BITMAP
• v0.22r (2024-05-12)
  • Added comments starting with apostrophe.
  • Fixed silent abort on duplicate line number in LOAD with ASC option.
• v0.22q (2024-05-11)
  • Changed DEF TILE TO CHR to SET TILE TO CHR
  • Wrote demo program /pbdemo/chrsprite.bas
• v0.22p (2024-05-10)
  • Added DEF TILE TO CHR and DEF BYTELIST
• v0.22o (2024-05-09)
  • Implemented SAVE SCREEN and LOAD SCREEN statements
• v0.22n (2024-05-08)
  • Added SPLIT command
• v0.22m (2024-04-28)
  • Fixed spaces after escaped string being tokenized.
• v0.22l (2024-04-21)
  • Added INMEM function
  • Fixed stomping of temporay string in string trimming functions functions.
• v0.22k (2024-03-24)
  • Added SAVE filespec$,CAQ to override SET SAVE ASC and SAVE filespec$,TOK to save raw tokenized program.
  • Updated load_basic_program accordingly
• v0.22j (2024-03-20)
  • Implemented COPY FILE
• v0.22i (2024-03-20)
  • Removed LOAD STRING stub from source and README.md. Add LOAD and SAVE ^var$ to README.md.
• v0.22h (2024-03-19)
  • Single PSET, PRESET, and POINT(), along with underlying routines.
  • Single FILL BITMAP and CLEAR BITMAP along with underlying routines.
  • Replaced SET BITMAP?? with COLOR, GETBITMAP?? with POSX, POSY, and COLOR
  • Bitmap routines use EXT_FLAGS bits to determine
  • Added DRAW token, USE SCREEN stub.
• v0.22g (2024-03-11)
  • Added bitmap_read_sysvars, GETBITMAPBC, GETBITMAPBX, and GETBITMAPBY
  • Added bitmap_write_color, bitmap_write_xpos, bitmap_write_ypos, and SET BITMAPBC BITMAPBX BITMAPBY
  • Added bitmapc_read_sysvars, GETBITMAPCC, GETBITMAPCX, and GETBITMAPCY
  • PSETB, PRESETB, POINTB, PSETC, PRESETC, and POINTC update last-x and last-y system variables
  • Changed CLEAR BITMAP to CLEAR BITMAPB, matching syntax of other BITMAP keywords
  • Added bitmapc_write_color, bitmapc_write_xpos, bitmapc_write_ypos, and SET BITMAPCC BITMAPCX BITMAPCY
  • If PSETB color operand not specified, use color from SET BITMAPCC
  • Renamed and reorganized several module assembly language files
  • Added bitmap_move
• v0.22f (2024-03-09)
  • Implemented PSETC, PRESETC, and POINTC
  • Fixed Y-coordinate clipping in PSETB, PRESETB, POTNTB
• v0.22e (2024-03-09)
  • Implemented POINTB(), added CLEAR BITMAPC and FILL BITMAPC
• v0.22d (2024-03-08)
  • Added CLEAR BITMAP, FILL BITMAP.
  • Implemented PSETB and PRESETB
• v0.22c (2024-03-06)
• v0.22c (2024-03-06)
  • Fixed syntax error on extended functions VER through VARPTR
• v0.22b (2024-03-04)
  • Added KEY(-1)
• v0.22a (2024-03-04)
  • Added KEY("keys")
• v0.22 (2024-03-04)
  • Added PT3STATUS, PT3LOOP, SET PT3 ON/OFF and fixed PAUSE PT3 while PT3 LOOP is active
• v0.21z (2024-03-01)
  • Added pseudovariable ARGS and ARGS$(0)
• v0.21y (2024-02-25)
  • Added SWAP VARS statement, ERASE statement, MID$ statement, and INDEX() function
• v0.21x (2024-02-24)
  • Added TRIM$, TRIML$, and TRIMR$ functions
• v0.21w (2024-02-21)
  • Added GETCHRSET function
  • Improved screen switch/swap
  • Fixed 80-column color mode printing
  • Tweaked Latin-1 character sets
• v0.21v (2024-02-14)
  • Added LOAD DIR filename$,*array$
  • LOAD array$ ASC and LOAD DIR start at array index 1, put number of lines in index 0
  • Updated read/write page checking to match new memory structure
• v0.21u (2024-02-13)
  • Added LOAD filename$,*array$,ASC
• v0.21s (2024-02-13)
  • Implemented DEF FNx and FNx
• v0.21r (2024-02-13)
  • Added function INSTR, kernel routine str_instr
• v0.21q (2024-02-12)
  • Added VARPTR() and STRPTR()
• v0.20p (2024-02-12)
  • Replaced SCREEN SAVE, SCREEN RESTORE, and SCREEN SWAP with STASH SCREEN, RESTORE SCREEN, and SWAP SCREEN.
• v0.21o (2024-02-12)
  • Removed character ROM data from sysrom binary, makerom script now does a simple copy with concatenate
• v0.21n (2024-02-11)
  • Fixed 'Unknown error' bug in SAVE paged binary over 32k in length
• v0.21m (2024-02-11)
  • Added MOUSEW
• v0.21j (2024-0209)
  • Added SAVE/LOAD string arrays
• v0.21h (2024-02-05)
  • Modified legal write pages, PLAY SAMPLE allowed pages
• v0.21g (2024-02-03)
  • Reactivated JP descramble_rom in files.asm
• v0.21f (2024-02-03)
  • Loads ptplay.bin from ESP: instead of SD card
• v0.21e (2024-01-31)
  • Added LOOP PT3 [filename]
• v0.21c (2024-01-31)
  • Separated pt3player code into loadable module
• v0.21b (2024-01-29)
  • Load default and Latin-1 character sets from ESP filesystem
• v0.21a (2024-01-29)
  • Added USE CHRSET filename$, changed Ctrl-O to switch to custom chrset, removed Ctrl-P option
• v0.21 (2024-01-27)
  • SYSROM loaded in pages 60 through 62 as SoftROM
• v0.20w (2024-01-22)
  • Fixed tokenization bug when RUNing BASIC progam files in ASCII format
• v0.20v (2024-01-21)
  • Fixed DEF SPRITE [...] x-offset bug
• v0.20u (2024-01-18)
  • Added SET SPRITE var$ TILECLIP and debugged str_length
• v0.20s (2024-01-17)
  • Added GET/PUT TILEMAP ... ^var$, debugged FILL [@page,]address,WORD int, fixed ASC$() bug.
• v0.20r (2024-01-16)
  • Added TRON and TROFF statements and Extended BASIC jump table. Debugged graphics DEF statements.
• v0.20q (2024-01-14)
  • Finalized esp, paged, dos, and file_io jump table entries
• v0.20n (2024-01-13)
  • Added syntax LIST$(NEXT), replaced all usage of SBUFF in paged memory with STRBUF in main memory
• v0.20m (2024-01-11)
  • Added FILL [@page,] start, count, |byte|WORD int|, sys_fill_word, tokens VARS and WORD
  • Fixed spurious FC error in GET SCREEN
  • Finished GET TILEMAP, PUT_TILEMAP, tilemap_get, and tilemap_put
• v0.20k (2024-01-08)
  • Implemented SET TILEMAP (x,y) and tilemap_set_tile
• v0.20j (2024-01-07)
  • Allow both , and ; as delimiters in DEF INTLIST
  • Fixed ATTR attrs and PALETTE palette# causing syntax error after FILL TILEMAP tile#
  • . treated as 0 in hex literal strings and ASC$ function
• v0.20i (2024-01-06)
  • Added BASIC functions FILEEXT$(), FILEDIR$(), TRIMDIR$(), TRIMEXT$()
  • Added kernel routines file_get_ext, file_trim_dir, file_get_dir, file_trim_ext
  • Allow unquoted filename operand for RUN in direct mode
  • Added direct mode syntax DEL file file file...
  • Added syntax LOAD filename$,@page and SAVE filename$,@page
  • Added cartridge diagnostic mode assembly option
• v0.20h (2024-01-02)
  • Fixed 8k carts not working
• v0.20g (2023-12-30)
  • FILL SCREEN, GET SCREEN, PUT SCREEN now work in both 40 column and 80 column mode
• v0.20f (2023-12-30)
  • Added optional comma between end-coordinate and fill character in FILL SCREEN
• v0.20e (2023-12-29)
  • Added KEY() function
• v0.20d (2023-12-29)
  • Added DEC() function, fixed esp_get_version/VER(0)/VER$(0)
• v0.20c (2023-12-23)
  • Refactored (and hopefully fixed) cartridge boot code
• v0.20b (2023-12-17)
  • Fixed bug in init_charram
• v0.20a (2023-12-17)
  • Clear BASIC RAM before starting cart. Add IRQ and hook disable, screen reset to hardware cart startup
• v0.20u (2023-12-14)
  • Fixed GETPALETTE$, modded file_load_pt3 to stop any running pt3play process
• v0.19t (2023-12-13)
  • Replaced RESET PT3 with STOP PT3, added PAUSE PT3 and RESUME PT3
• v0.19s (2023-12-12)
  • Fixed CLS when SET COLOR is active
• v0.19r (2023-12-12)
  • Fixed PLAY PT3 and RESET PT3
• v0.19q (2023-12-13)
  • PLAY PT3 fixes
• v0.19p (2023-12-11)
  • implemented PT3 PLAY
• v0.19n (2023-12-08)
  • Added LOAD PALLETE, SAVE PALETTE, RESET PALETTE and RESET SCREEN
• v0.19m (2023-12-08)
  • Fixed routine screen_pos_addr which had broken GET SCREEN and PUT SCREEN
  • Implemented LOAD PT3 statement
• v0.19j (2023-12-04)
  • Fixed printing to screen after SET COLOR
• v0.19i (2023-12-03)
  • Converted plusBASIC patches to hooks to increase cartridge compatibility
• v0.19h (2023-12-02)
  • Fixed ?Syntax error when RUNning ROM
• v0.19g (2023-12-01)
  • Added SET SAVE ASC ON/OFF, preset DAC to $80 to eliminate click at begining of first sample
• v0.19f (2023-11-29)
  • Fixed bank 1 not restored after, clicking in play_sample
• v0.19e (2023-11-28)
  • Moved Extended BASIC hook routines into Bank 1 ROM
• v0.19d (2023-11-27)
  • Moved dos and fileio modules into Aux ROM
• v0.19c (2023-11-26)
  • Consolidated 256-byte aligned tables into tables.asm
  • Fixed Disk I/O error when trying to LOAD/RUN esp:settings
• v0.19b (2023-11-26)
  • DIR now shows 0B instead of B for zero length files.
• v0.19a (2023-11-26)
  • Added /r and /t escape sequences
• v0.19 (2023-11-25)
  • Added backslash escaped strings
• v0.18y (2023-11-24)
  • LOAD and RUN now autodect CAQ vs ASCII when loading BASIC programs. Removed ,ASC option from LOAD.
• v0.18x (2023-11-24)
  • Added SAVE file$,ASC